The Members of Parliament representing the SLFP in the Joint Opposition, JO have submitted to the Steering Committee headed by the Prime Minister, their proposals for the proposed new Constitution, which inter alia includes a proposal to remove the existing …

You did not treat all conflicts with equal concern

Dear Mr. Secretary General

Welcome to Sri Lanka.

We Sri Lankans are indeed gratified for your decision to visit our island for the second time during your term of office, drawing …

A Buddhist shrine room erected within the premises of Special Task Force camp in Kanagarayankulam, Mankulam in the North had been vandalised on Monday 29, the Police said.

The camp, established after the war victory in 2009, does not exist …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

Courtesy of The Island

Outgoing 72-year-old United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Palaly air base in the Jaffna peninsula on Friday (Sept. 2, 2016).

The former South Korean foreign minister’s visit to Jaffna takes …

Twenty (20) strong Buddhist Organizations in Sri Lanka under the common banner of Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations has strongly condemned the most controversial Parliament Bill; Office of Missing Person passed in the history of Sri Lanka. The OMP Bill …

(Courtesy of The Islands)

Even anyone familiar with parliamentary process in this land of lotus eaters would wonder how and why this government bungles when it comes to passing new laws.  We are said to have a unity or national …

The Yahapalana Government has further decided to grant bank loans at concessionary rates to ex-LTTE Tamil terrorists for self-employment purposes.

The parliamentary oversight committee of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Ministry, led by another hardline Tamil Minister has proposed and discussed …

Over a clashes between a group of undergraduates in University of Peradeniya the University administration has suspended for two weeks 10 senior Sinhala students of the Faculty of Allied Sciences for attacking of group students on August 22.

However, not …

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and TNA controlled Northern Provincial Council would obstruct coexistence with the majority Sinhala Buddhists by advancing its own extremist agenda by banning construction of Buddhist Temples in Northern Province is the …